Booboos
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My apologies if I offered unwanted CC! I am genuinely glad your horse has improved with the op and I hope he goes from strength to strength!
Kissing spines ligament resection - 6 weeks
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cptrayes
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My mistake Booboos, I should have realised that people who don't follow my blog don't realise how incredible it is that the op was only eight weeks today.
This morning it hailed just before I got on - weather which fills him with fear of cold related pain. I got on ok, but he backed up stamping his hind feet. Because of how forward and cheeky he was when I hacked yesterday, and how soft his back is before I saddle up, I know his pain has gone. So I raised enough gumption to tickle him with the whip to tell him to get on with it. He did, and we did some smashing walk and trot with his natural elevation really beginning to come back now. Now that would have made a nice video (only I always muck it up when people are watching
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This morning it hailed just before I got on - weather which fills him with fear of cold related pain. I got on ok, but he backed up stamping his hind feet. Because of how forward and cheeky he was when I hacked yesterday, and how soft his back is before I saddle up, I know his pain has gone. So I raised enough gumption to tickle him with the whip to tell him to get on with it. He did, and we did some smashing walk and trot with his natural elevation really beginning to come back now. Now that would have made a nice video (only I always muck it up when people are watching
)
Goldenstar
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I am lucky I have a great physio .
What she gives me is insight into what the muscles are telling her is going on when, I have on issue I just do the work and she comes in every other week and tells me where we are at.
It's really helped me push on .
She great with training exercises as well ( she rides although she does not have a horse ATM ) which I think helps a lot .
It was a physio who picked up my old boys KS when it started at 18 on his regular check.
Some musings about your boy try a thermatex exercise sheet they mould to the horse well they don't get sticky under them but i would see if keeping him really warm during work helps .
The skips are to with pushing forward he expects pain still I would try doing forward and back within the walk and trot to show him it does not hurt I would do this in the school and out and about so it's more like lets trot medium round this corner and then back into a shorter trot I would work it into the situations so to reduce the remembered stress.
I would take him into the school and play games food related it he's greedy .If you have not got a fence round the school that harder to do .
I would take him the school daily after hacking walk on loose riens and and give treats ridden .
If he was a competiton horse who fell by the wayside due to this issue you need to plan going away from home carefully as this will need careful handling if you can make the time I would be loading him to schools soon and long riening him there no stress no hard phyical demands games fun food and praise when you get to riding in schools away from home make trips when no demands are made of him walking and praise until you are sure he's happy.
It takes time for them to forget and they need to believe you are not going to hurt them by saying you must do it when they have had the experiance of saying I can't it hurts if that what happened in his past.
Your making great progress .
What she gives me is insight into what the muscles are telling her is going on when, I have on issue I just do the work and she comes in every other week and tells me where we are at.
It's really helped me push on .
She great with training exercises as well ( she rides although she does not have a horse ATM ) which I think helps a lot .
It was a physio who picked up my old boys KS when it started at 18 on his regular check.
Some musings about your boy try a thermatex exercise sheet they mould to the horse well they don't get sticky under them but i would see if keeping him really warm during work helps .
The skips are to with pushing forward he expects pain still I would try doing forward and back within the walk and trot to show him it does not hurt I would do this in the school and out and about so it's more like lets trot medium round this corner and then back into a shorter trot I would work it into the situations so to reduce the remembered stress.
I would take him into the school and play games food related it he's greedy .If you have not got a fence round the school that harder to do .
I would take him the school daily after hacking walk on loose riens and and give treats ridden .
If he was a competiton horse who fell by the wayside due to this issue you need to plan going away from home carefully as this will need careful handling if you can make the time I would be loading him to schools soon and long riening him there no stress no hard phyical demands games fun food and praise when you get to riding in schools away from home make trips when no demands are made of him walking and praise until you are sure he's happy.
It takes time for them to forget and they need to believe you are not going to hurt them by saying you must do it when they have had the experiance of saying I can't it hurts if that what happened in his past.
Your making great progress .
cptrayes
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GMTA goldenstar
I had his Linus blanket on today. It's a Swish, half the price of a thermatex but nearly the same and it has always had a calming effect on him even on days when he could not possibly be cold. Quite odd really.
He's only seven and a really trusting, forgiving horse, so I hope to restart his dressage career because he was bred for it. But if he can't get pain out of his head when he competes, I'm happy, and privileged, just to be able to ride him at home.
Thanks for the tips.
I had his Linus blanket on today. It's a Swish, half the price of a thermatex but nearly the same and it has always had a calming effect on him even on days when he could not possibly be cold. Quite odd really.
He's only seven and a really trusting, forgiving horse, so I hope to restart his dressage career because he was bred for it. But if he can't get pain out of his head when he competes, I'm happy, and privileged, just to be able to ride him at home.
Thanks for the tips.